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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
To everybody saying that a majority of the population voted to defund the library over some gay books (and that WAS the reason for the defunding, as per every news source I could find, including conservative sources and local sources), these were small, local elections with very small turnout. I know we just went through the midterms, but both votes in question were from before then.
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The 2018 Jamestown, Michigan census shows the town had 8,618 people. I don't know if the population went up or down since 2018. I do know that about 5,500 citizens voted for and against the library millage. That's NOT a small turnout, especially when you consider that, of the (approximately) 3,000+ citizens who didn't vote, a certain percentage were children not of voting age.
But it's beside the point. Even if the turnout had been light, that doesn't invalidate the election.